# Date: 1903-12-14

The letter from Y. O. Martov printed below is a response to the letter of F. V. Lengnik to the editorial board of the C.O. of December 14 (above, document 131, pp. 56–58). We place this letter not immediately after the aforementioned letter of F. V. Lengnik, but precisely here by virtue of F. V. Lengnik's note on it, that the letter was received by the addressee only on December 18.

# 135.
# Y. O. MARTOV — F. V. LENGNIK *.

Comrade Vasiliev.

14/XII [1903, Geneva] **.

Esteemed Comrade!

Given that, having raised before the editorial board of the C.O. an important question about the necessity of taking measures to safeguard good relations in the Party, you are formally declining personal explanations with the editorial board on this matter (you refuse to appear today at our invitation and do not indicate in turn when you will be able to do so), the editorial board considers it necessary to inform the C.C. in Russia directly of the steps you have taken, which cannot but lead to an exacerbation of the existing disagreements in the Party.

By order of the editorial board of the C.O.

L. Martov.

* In the archive of the Lenin Institute this document exists in two forms: 1) as a photograph of the original letter of Y. O. Martov, 2) as a copy written in an unknown hand in one of the notebooks for the archive. Here the document is printed from the photograph of the original letter. Ed.

** On the letter there is a note by F. V. Lengnik: "Received 18/XII Vasiliev." Ed.